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SUMMARY:Accounting for That Which Has "No Account" - Christian Literary Imagination series
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nThis event:\nAccounting for That Which Has “No Account” -Daniel Defoe\, Survival Emotions\, and Our Fundamental Contradiction – a talk by Kathryn Temple\, Georgetown \n\n\n\nSurvival emotions\, often conceived of as biologically driven\, are also culturally and socially formed; the way we think and feel about pandemics was shaped by early eighteenth-century reactions to crisis. Kathryn Temple of Georgetown University examines these emotions through a reading of Daniel Defoe’s 1722 Journal of a Plague Year in light of what Duncan Kennedy has called the “fundamental contradiction\,” that between our emotional attachment to “liberty\,” versus our need for communities that protect that liberty. The great London plague of 1664-1665 killed an estimated 100\,000 of 460\,000 Londoners. But Defoe’s frenetic efforts to “account” for both the plague and reactions to it through detailed statistics and “scientific” observations failed miserably to explain the human reactions to what was actually a global pandemic. \nWhat Defoe does succeed at is the delineation of certain narrative conventions—including that of the spiritual inventory—that have driven pandemic narratives from the time of the Journal to today’s pandemic. In Defoe’s Journal the “fundamental contradiction” is expressed through this spiritual accounting as Defoe’s protagonist attempts to “account” not only for the pandemic but for his own and other’s reactions to it. In this online webinar Temple will discuss her paper on Defoe’s Journal\, followed by a Q&A moderated by Michael Scott. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project\, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative\, the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities\, Campion Hall (University of Oxford)\, and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford). It is part of a two-year-long series on the Christian Literary Imagination. \nFeatured\nKathryn Temple is a professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University where she has taught since 1994. She specializes in the study of law and the humanities. Among her publications are Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (2019) and the co-edited Research Handbook on Law and Emotions (2021). Her humanities outreach activities include work with military veterans and the incarcerated. \nProfessor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n\n\n  \nUpcoming events: \nMichaelmas term \n26th October\nJohn Hirsh – Chaucer \n16th November\nJohn Pfordresher – Imagining Christianity: Robert Browning’s Christmas Eve and Easter Day \n23rd November\nCharles Tung – HG Wells and the Apocalypse \n9th December\nJulia Lamm – Julian of Norwich \n  \nHilary Term \n18th January\nBarbara Mujica – Teresa d’ Avila \n1st February\nMark Bosco – Graham Greene \n15th February\nHester Jones – TBC \n1st March\nMike Collins – Two Welsh Poets: R S Thomas and John Ormond \n15th March\nBridget Keegan – Jane Barker + Elizabeth Inchbald: Overt and Covert Catholicism \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/defoe-christian-literary-imagination-series/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Art and Communication
DESCRIPTION:Free Speech at a Crossroads: International Dialogues series\nArt\, of course\, is not just to look at and critique. It inspires us\, provokes us\, and often makes us consider unwelcome or uncomfortable truths. In tense and chaotic times\, art may communicate what is on our minds more effectively than politics or the popular media. \n  \nMonday 18th October \nArt and Communication \nParticipants: Estelle Thompson\, Dennis de Caires\, Caroline Holder  and Gary Vikan \nModerated by Michael Scott and Sandy Ungar \n  \nUpcoming events: \nMonday 15th November \nPolitical Hypocrisy \n  \nMonday 13th December \nClimate Change \n  \nThese events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University)\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/art-and-communication/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWe will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal changes in how we live and think? How did the desire for more religious fervour end up bringing religious disbelief? How does life change when God is more or less absent? \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College\n \nThe group is online. No previous knowledge of anything is required or recommended. \nFree and open for all.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/charles-taylors-a-secular-age/2021-10-20/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:The Case for Cross-Cultural Dialogue - panel discussion with Q&A
DESCRIPTION:China and the West: Cultural Dialogues Series \nOver the course of the 2021-2022 academic year\, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford and The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU) in London. \nFriday 22nd October \nThe Case for Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Panel discussion with Q&As \n\n\n\nJoin four Chinese enthusiasts for a conversation about the rich culture and heritage of this vast country. U.K. historians Michael Wood and Kerry Brown will discuss their enthusiasm for Chinese literature\, art\, and performance with Kathryn Temple of Georgetown University and Tong Ping\, a native of Chengdu—a city famed for its pandas but also as an intersection of differing Chinese cultures. The discussion will be co-chaired by Michael Scott\, who has held fellowships at two Chinese universities and published a book in China on the stories of King Arthur\, and Barnaby Powell\, a veteran of development banking in East Asia and co-author of three books on China. \n\nFeatured\nKerry Brown is professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College\, London. From 2012 to 2015 he was professor of Chinese politics and director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney\, Australia. Prior to this he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012 as senior fellow and then head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office as first secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing\, and then as head of the Indonesia\, Philippine and East Timor Section. He is the author of almost 20 books on modern Chinese politics; Brown has written for every major international news outlet and been interviewed by every major news channel on issues relating to contemporary China. \nTong Ping is an entrepreneur and international education specialist. She has extensive experience with both Chinese and British higher education systems\, and she has cooperated closely with government organizations. She runs three education-related companies in China and the United Kingdom\, helping institutions to establish links and students to pursue their studies abroad. \nKathryn Temple is a professor in the Department of English and a senior fellow with the Future of the Humanities Project at Georgetown University. Her teaching and research interests include eighteenth century British literature and culture\, cultural legal studies\, history of intellectual property\, and feminist jurisprudence. Temple has published on eighteenth-century authorship and “crimes of writing\,” the gothic\, legal literature for women\, affect and justice\, and the history of emotion. \nMichael Wood is an English historian and broadcaster. He is the author of several highly praised books on English history including In Search of the Dark Ages (1987/2005)\, The Domesday Quest (1986/2005)\, In Search of England (2010)\, and In Search of Shakespeare (2005). He has over 80 documentary films to his name\, among them Art of the Western World\, Legacy\, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great\, Conquistadors\, and In Search of Myths and Heroes. Wood completed his post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history at Oriel College\, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \nBarnaby Powell (moderator) is a veteran of development banking in East Asia and author\, with Alex Mackinnon\, of three books on China: China Calling (2008)\, China Counting (2010)\, and 2018 – China Goes Critical (2013). \nMichael Scott (moderator) is Fellow and Senior Dean at Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. He is also senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University and leads the Future of the Humanities Project. He has previously served as pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University\, Leicester\, and was the founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. His books include studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries and in twentieth century theatre. He has been a fellow and visiting professor at two Chinese universities and published a book on King Arthur with the Foreign Research and Teaching Press in Beijing. \n\n\n  \n  \nUpcoming events\nFriday 5th November \nPlato and Xunzi on the Construction of the Ideal State: a meeting of distant minds \nTalk followed by discussion. Participants: Terry Peach and Tong Ping \nModerator: Michael Scott \n  \nFriday 3rd December \nShakespeare and the Sinophone World \nTalk followed by discussion. Participants: Alexa Alice Joubin and Tong Ping \nModerator: Michael Scott \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-case-for-cross-cultural-dialogue-panel-discussion-with-qa/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Chaucer's God? - Christian Literary Imagination series
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall and Campion Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nThis event:\n26th October\nProfessor John Hirsh – Chaucer’s God?\n \nProfessor Hirsh’s talk\, “Chaucer’s God?\,” will focus on two of Chaucer’s four religious tales\, the Man of Law’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale\, and will set their narratives against a specific reading of an understanding of the Nature of God\, as it was understood in the fourteenth-century schools\, that is reflected in Chaucer’s tales. \nFeatured\nProfessor John Hirsh is a longtime student of Chaucer\, medieval lyrics\, and medieval literature in general. At Georgetown he has also been invested in urban literacy\, and in Golden Rule\, formerly Sursum Corda\, a tutoring program for undergraduate students. \nProfessor Michael Scott (moderator) is Senior Dean\, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, the University of Oxford college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a Member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president at Georgetown University. Scott was on the editorial board which relaunched Critical Survey from Oxford University Press. Scott previously served as the pro vice chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \nUpcoming events: \n16th November\nJohn Pfordresher – Imagining Christianity: Robert Browning’s Christmas Eve and Easter Day \n23rd November\nCharles Tung – HG Wells and the Apocalypse \n9th December\nJulia Lamm – Julian of Norwich \n  \nHilary Term \n18th January\nBarbara Mujica – Teresa d’ Avila \n1st February\nMark Bosco – Graham Greene \n15th February\nHester Jones – TBC \n1st March\nMike Collins – Two Welsh Poets: R S Thomas and John Ormond \n15th March\nBridget Keegan – Jane Barker + Elizabeth Inchbald: Overt and Covert Catholicism \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/chaucer-christian-literary-imagination-series/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Charles Taylor's A Secular Age
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWe will look at selected passages from Part I of this penetrating study into the loss of religious certainty in the modern age. We will look at how Taylor asks and tries to answer many hard and fascinating questions: What does it mean for an age to be secular? What were the principal changes in how we live and think? How did the desire for more religious fervour end up bringing religious disbelief? How does life change when God is more or less absent? \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College\n \nThe group is online. No previous knowledge of anything is required or recommended. \nFree and open for all.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/charles-taylors-a-secular-age/2021-10-27/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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